What to do with old Computers...

He should have opened up the cup holders on his Lenovo armrests and set a cup of ale on one.

Damn I wish I had that much free time on my hands. For me it wouldn't be an issue of getting fired so much as being murdered by the towers for not being able to carefully construct them in such a manner I didn't break my neck trying to sit on it. Cudos to you Sir. Your job must be nice....

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What to do with workgroup computers?

Hi,
We do deploy workgroup computers with OSD. This computers is nothing we support after they have been installed. The problem is that this computer objects is left in sccm. Some times I delete them, but they show up again. I have som exlution Collection with
this workgroup computer in. But in general i Think it is ennoying to have them when i work with client Health and so on.
What to do with workgroup computers? What options do I have to get rid of this workgroup objects?
/SaiTech

Hi,
in short: there are two main reasons why the workgroup client shows up in the ConfigMgr console.
1) the installed SCCM Client
2) the discovery method
you need to make sure the sccm client is not installed on the workgroup clients and that they are not part of a discovery process.
Regards
Thomas
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What's wrong with old applet tag?

Hi there,
What is wrong with old <applet> tag? It will stop displaying java applet in the new browsers? What do we gain by using <embed>?
Thanks.
Mike

The applet element was deprecated in HTML 4.01 but still works. Continue to use it to display AWT applets in NE else if using SWING applets must to use EMBED. See Java documentation for details, in special the OBJECT tag chapter..better reading about HTML converter.

What to do with old Macs

I have some old Macs that I need to... uh... I can't say "get rid of" since that sounds too harsh, but, well, for which I need to find good homes. I have a PowerMac 5400/120, an LC 520, a couple SE 30s, a IIci, a Performa 638CD, and a 6112. There are a couple more too, but if I could find someone who wanted these it would be great.
The local waste management outfit takes old computers and recycles them. That will be a last resort, but unless anyone knows of a concrete solution, I will have to bite the bullet and take them to recycle land.
Has anyone else been down this road and can you share specifically what the answer is?

Bud,
That is the problem. It is now cheaper to buy newer used goods than the shipping and handling of the old. I have explored sending computers to Mexico but customs gets in the way ( in more ways than one ).
One fellow from South Africa went to a Hanford Nuclear site auction and 'ruined' the auction for others by buying up several lots of equipment. He did not realize that acquisition cost was the least of his worries. When queried, he admitted that he did not know who to configure the computers. They also sat in a warehouse.
I would swap IBM stuff for Mac stuff. The IBM guys would spend a day finding drivers for the hard drives. I would plug an external SCSI drive into the back of a Mac and within minutes, I could have the Mac tested and reconfigured. When will the IBM camp ever learn?
A Spokane school district bought $27,000 worth of new computers before getting a bid to hardwire the computers into a network. When they got the bids, someone pointed out that the money for the electricians could be spent on newer wireless computer systems. The computers sat in a warehouse for an entire school year, losing value and becoming even more obsolete before they figured out that they needed to sell off the sets to schools that just wanted one or two units and not a network.
I let kids turn old computers into science projects and then recycle the leftovers.
Jim

What to do with old ATC?

My Airport Time Capsule (purchased April 2009) has apparently died.
A 'factory reset' results in a green light, then flashing amber, then solid amber, then the LED goes dark. It never appears in Airport utility during this process.
I was using it mainly for backup and don't need a wireless router, so I bought an external hard drive to serve that purpose.
So what do I do with the old ATC? I don't know if my data is still on it or not. I hate to throw it in the trash. Is it recycleable? Is it worth anything to someone with the know-how to fix it? If they fix it, will my data be exposed?
I just don't know what to do with it now. Any suggestions?

You were right. Power supply was dead.
I've never done anything like this before, but thanks to the link you provided with instructions, I opened up my time capsule.
I have no way to wipe the hard drive, so I decided to take a chance on replacing the power supply.
Ordered one on eBay ($79.95) and installed it. Time Capsule powered up and is running fine. It runs really hot so after reading about all the issues with the design, I decided to leave the rubber mat off the bottom and got some 'feet' for it so it doesn't sit flat on the shelf.
I wiped the hard drive and started my Time Machine backups again. I really prefer the 'wireless' backup to the TC rather than having the USB hard drive plugged into my Macbook Pro for backups.
If I can get another 4 years out of it, it will be well worth it!
Thanks again for the advice!

What to Do with Old iPhone When a New One Comes Out

What do you do with your old iPhone when a new one comes out? Is there some trade-in thing or something? Do I just pay full price for the new iPhone? Does AT&T have a trade-in policy or something?

dannymichel wrote:
What do you do with your old iPhone when a new one comes out? Is there some trade-in thing or something? Do I just pay full price for the new iPhone? Does AT&T have a trade-in policy or something?
No trade-in. I just sell mine [on ebay] a few weeks before the newer version comes out, or right after. they go for quite a bit if they are in nice condition.

Lost iphone, replaced it, found lost one, what to do with old one

Ok, I lost my iphone 4g, I get a replacement, insurance wasn't available at the time I got the phone. Now one of my co-workers found it for me today, what can I do with the old phone. Should I report it to Verizon, and hope they would offer credit or some consolation to my account. Or don't bother wasting my time with that, just try to sell it.
Please advise, thanks

How did you get a replacement? If you just purchased it, the old one is yours to do with as you wish. The credit you can get from Verizon is less than you could get for it by selling it yourself, but you have to consider if that is worth the hassle. See the official Verizon program:
https://www.trade-in.vzw.com
Looks like for the VZ iPhone in good condition:
$252 16GB
$265 32GB
$312 64GB
(I would expect these prices (and those you get elsewhere) to drop once a new iPhone comes out.)
If you got the phone some other way (you say insurance wasn't available) through a credit card company or something, I'm sure the conditions would say the old phone belongs to them.

What to do with old 30GB hard drive after replacement?

Hi everybody,
am going to replace my 30GB HDD with a 160GB HDD the next days, I am preparing everything around, as I am going to do it byf myself. One question besides all the data-saving, backing up and shifting to other drives is becoming increasingly interesting:
What do I do as soon as all the contents of the old drive are secured somewhere? Do I run a full erase on the drive? How can this be done?
(Sorry for the stupid quote, but the picture of a snake comes to my mind that eats up itself and whoops?!... away it is. ) I understand how to safely erase almost everything but the OS cannot be erased, correct?
Thanks for a hint,
I appreciate it.
Cheers,
Keywan

Once you have the replacement and file/data transfer done, you can pick up a HD enclosure for about $20-30 at most any electronics store and put that 30g drive in it. Then you can erase it and use it as a removable HD. I will do that when I upgrade a HD, no sense trashing a perfectly good HD, even a smaller one, when you can still use it for the price of an enclosure.

What to do with old iPhoto library after migration to Photos

After migration to Photos my hard drive is maxed out. I want to move the 15gigs old iPhoto library to an external drive to free some space as some have suggested. Others here have said you can just trash the old library. There must be a reason 10.10.3 was designed to retain the iPhoto library. Trash it--really? Another suggestion was to put my 15 gigs on a flash drive. So the question is: does Photos need to be able to see the iPhoto library as it would if on an external drive connected to my Time Machine?

Thanks for your reply but I'm still confused as to how I lost over 10Gigs of HD space after the migration. I understand the conversion is supposed to create more space, not less. When I look in the pictures folder in Finder, I see 2 LIbrarys, iPhoto and Photos, each of them approx 15 Gbs. according to the Get Info menu. I guess what I don't understand is if the iPhotos Library is not needed and is moved to an external drive why that wouldn't free that amount of space.
Also, if "optimization" is supposed to move "some" high res images to the cloud to make room on the HD, how is it that I find myself with only 1gb left on my HD? What is the criteria that triggers "optimization" and how much room can we expect it to shoot for? There seems to be a variety of answers on this subject, many of them sound like guesses. Apple's explanation is vague about how it works, so hopefully someone has the accurate, in depth scoop on this.

What to do with old Ipod 4

Apple gave me back my broken Ipod 4 that they replaced with a new one for a price. I am just wondering what I can do with it now?

Anything yo want. Sell for parts.
I am surprised since Apple exchanges an old iPod for a refurbished one as an out-or-warranty replacement.

What to do with old iPhone

I have my new 3g iPhone as an upgrade. I would like to give my old (old!) iPhone to a family member. I was told at the O2 store (in the UK), that they'd be issuing Pay As You Go sims for the old phones next week. Anybody know if this is true? Otherwise, what's everyone else doing with their old handset?

Thanks for that. Yes, I got the O2 PAYG sim and set up the iPhone with it without any problems. I paid £20 for a top up, nothing for the sim, and I got £22 in total credit. There's a £10 per month data bolt on you can buy, but I didn't bother. I now have one of the very first official Pay As You Go iPhones. Pretty good.

What to do with old PPC Mac Mini?

I've got an old Mac Mini Power PC lying around with 160 GB HD and 1 GB of RAM. Rather than just let it collect dust, are there any interesting things I can do with it within my home? I'm not looking to run my own web or email server, but any other ideas I'd love to hear.
Thanks

Hello Wayne,
Unless your running a SOHO (Small Office Home Office if your not familiar with the term) the mini server is WAY WAY overkill. For what your wanting to do, the regular version of the OS will work just fine.
Several companies have drive enclosures that look almost identical to the mac mini that is a concern, I'll post a link to one at the end of this response.
If you were going to connect connect your two Mini's directly via the ethernet port you would loose your internet connectivity unless you went (a)wireless for the network portion of your project or (b) got one of apple's usb/ethernet adapters. My suggestion would be to pick up like a netgear, or some other brand, multiport router and plug both units into it.
FW400 to FW00 works fine, I've used it several times when migrating some of the people I support from older macs to newer ones.
Hope this helps or gives you more ideas LOL

What to do with old ink cart?

I have a HP 5440 printer that uses the 92 black and 93 color cartridges. What do I do with the old cartridges if I get a HP 6550 wireless printer? Can you send the old cartridges back for credit in newer ones?

You were right. Power supply was dead.
I've never done anything like this before, but thanks to the link you provided with instructions, I opened up my time capsule.
I have no way to wipe the hard drive, so I decided to take a chance on replacing the power supply.
Ordered one on eBay ($79.95) and installed it. Time Capsule powered up and is running fine. It runs really hot so after reading about all the issues with the design, I decided to leave the rubber mat off the bottom and got some 'feet' for it so it doesn't sit flat on the shelf.
I wiped the hard drive and started my Time Machine backups again. I really prefer the 'wireless' backup to the TC rather than having the USB hard drive plugged into my Macbook Pro for backups.
If I can get another 4 years out of it, it will be well worth it!
Thanks again for the advice!

What to do with old mac running leopard

what should i do with this emac? i don't need it for a file server or anything like that.
any ideas?
eMac G4, 700MHz, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, DVD/CD-RW
running 10.5.1 (yes, Leopard, it runs faster than tiger, even on 700MHz)

The eMacs are great for oldies. The tray loader is far easier to use with shaky hands than a slot loader.
If the eMac doesn't owe you anything try the local superannuitants clubs or Old folks homes.
No one is going to wander off with it under their arm and the screen is easy to see and clean.
Otherwise a young family could give it a good home.
I loved my eMac it's now being used by a young family with Tiger installed.

What to do with old router

hi i have a old BT router 2 and a very old orange router, im 99.9% sure they will never be used again. What should i do with it. I have local electronic recycling banks for small items, is that the best and safest thing to do?

More than likely yes Or you could keep it just in case the one you're using goes faulty. You could then use it until you get a replacement.
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